Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half an hour or so the ploy works, as jerry-built narrative if not as inspired physical comedy. Then Clouseau's plane is reported missing and an embarrassing elegy begins. "Men like Clouseau never die," intones one mourner. "They're unique. They help us preserve our sense of humor." Not, alas, when we are invited to genuflect at the coffin. Better to recall the lively Sellers-Clouseau: facing every indignity with stoic fatuity, bulldogging through the minefield of his own ineptitude, working new variations on that preposterous French accent. What a shame we will never hear...
...Soviets might resort to another ploy known as Pindown. By repeatedly exploding missiles high above the silos for several hours, they would create a blanket of floating debris, thermal shocks and high radiation that would keep the American missiles trapped in their silos. But the Pentagon replies that even if Pindown worked, which it doubts, the MXs could eventually be launched...
...because he is concerned about securing congressional approval for the system. He hopes to patch together an uneasy alliance in support of the program made up of hawks who want the MX for its own sake and doves who want it so the U.S. can give it away. That ploy may well backfire. By implying that the U.S. might be able to live without the MX in certain circumstances after all, Reagan has produced a self-contradiction that weakens the case for the missile as indispensable, a fact congressional skeptics have quickly pointed out. There is an acute irony here...
...ordered for the holiday season are expected to make it to store shelves in time. So far Tokyo has expressed only "regret," but the gambit may well boomerang in classic protectionist fashion. A Japanese trade delegation that is now considering increased imports from France will surely keep the Poitiers ploy in mind...
...those baskets in a row, Smith encouraged centers Holpuch and Wendy Joseph to front Diagle on defense to cut off a possible lob pass, while guards Pat Horne and Anne Scannell waited behind her to slap the ball from her hands it the pass got through. That defensive ploy worked well, but playing defense has its costs. Both Horne and Scannell fould out in the last minutes of play...